Razor



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON HILL AND LUTHER HILL, OF STONEHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAZOR STROP .AND CASE.

Speccation of Letters Patent No. 1,248, dated July 17, 1839.

T 0 all ywhom it may concern Be it known that we, AARON HILL and LLTI-Inn HILL, ot Stoneham, in the county ot' Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful mprovements in the Construction of RaZor-Strops.

These improvement-s, the principles thereof. the application of said principles` by which the same may be distinguished from other' and similar inventions, together' with such parts or combinations we claim as our invention and hold to be original and new, we have herein set torth and described, which description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings herein referred to, composes our specification.

The object of our invention is to combine a draw for razors with the strap (making one handle answer for both draw and strap) so as to render the shaving apparatus as compact and portable as possible.

Figure l, of the accompanying plate ot drawings represents a developec view of our inlprovements or a plan of the parts drawn out, Figs. 2 and 3 being different views ot' the draw or razor case with the springs thereto attached.

A A, is the case or covering of the strap constructed of pasteboard in the usual manner.

B B, represents the strap the body or frame C of which is a hollow rectangular box constructed ot' zinc, tin, or other suitable material, this body being wound or covered with flannel or other suitably elastic substance,` around which is properly fixed a covering of leather ot' proper quality, similar to other straps.

Into the body C of the strap is inserted the draw or razor case D, having a spring on its under side as shown at E, Fig. 3, to prevent its working while in the saine. This draw has a handle at F, which having a spring catch G engaging with a slot H in the frame ot' the strap, serves likewise as a handle to said strap, the spring and slit operating similarly to those arranged on the common umbrella. In the lend of the draw D is arranged the box of composition I, which is spread upon the strap in the usual way.

Having thus described our improvements we wish to claim as our invention as tollows, viz:

The combination of the razor draw, springl and catch therein, with the strap as above described, so that the handle of the draw shall likewise serve as a handle for the strap, and by this arrangement superseding the necessity of a handle extending through the whole length of the strap.

In testimony that the above is a true description of our invention and improvements we have hereunto set our signatures this twenty sixth day of June. in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine.

AARON HILL. LUTHER HILL..

lVitnesses E. G. AUSTIN, EZRA LINCOLN, Jr. 

